Explorando os Enigmas do Superuniverso
Elephant poaching is an enormous problem. From 2002 to 2012 central Africa lost 60% of its elephants to ivory poachers. The potential solutions vary in their methods a great deal. Some central African conservation groups have even hired Israeli ex-military commandos to help reorganize their anti-poaching efforts and provide conflict resolution assistance. Some scientists are taking a […]
The weekend of April 13-15 of this year marked the 31st anniversary of the annual Ozark Mountain UFO Conference. I was there to speak on the issue of the Men in Black. My lecture focused on the history of the MIB phenomenon, the key players in the affair (such as Albert Bender and John Keel, […]
American craft store chain Hobby Lobby and a rumored lost Sumerian city are two things you would never expect to see linked in a single headline. Yet according to a statement issued by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued this week, a cache of smuggled artifacts confiscated from Hobby Lobby by ICE agents […]
Artist Stephan Martiniere, who created this vision of future space travel, will judge the first-ever FarMaker Interstellar Speed Sketch contest at the Starship Congress conference on interstellar travel. From the very beginning we have looked to the stars and dreamed of reaching them, and stories about how we get there and what comes next are […]
If the world is going to end, why not have it be for a ridiculous, insane reason? Like, say, building nuclear power plants on top of a barge and sending it floating up to the Arctic? Well, that one’s real. If you wanted to panic now, we wouldn’t blame you. On Saturday, Russia launched Akademik […]
At the southwestern corner of Antarctic continent, there’s a river of ice dubbed the “most dangerous glacier in the world”. On Monday, American and British scientists officially launched a venture to investigate Thwaites Glacier. Their goal: to figure out whether it’s headed for a catastrophic collapse in the near future. We already know Thwaites Glacier […]
Every few hundred thousand years, Earth’s magnetic field flips, and considering the huge impact that would have on everything from satellite systems to electrical grids, scientists are very keen to work out when the next one might be. Hopefully it won’t be for a while yet, according to the latest study – by analysing recent […]
Plastic has been plagued with some bad press in the weeks leading up to Earth Day, which takes place Sunday, April 22, from a sperm whale that washed ashore in Spain with 64 pounds of plastic in its body to a 600,000 square mile area in the Pacific Ocean rife with trash. Both headlines drew […]
Last year, President Trump vowed that the US would remain a global leader in space exploration. As part of the effort to reclaim “America’s proud destiny in space,” Trump promised to return humans to the moon. Yet despite these grandiose plans, NASA has cancelled the only lunar robotic rover under development. On April 23, lunar […]
Scientists have found a way to trick the brain into thinking that it’s sensing something that it isn’t. Using flashes of light to control neurons, researchers believe they can “copy and paste” real brain activity, paving the way for a future in which we can edit memories, delete pain or insert a non-existent image. The […]